Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign called itself a “juggernaut” in May of that year, on par with a planet-destroying “Death Star” that was “firing on all cylinders.” Trump’s 2024 campaign has traded Star Wars metaphors for talk of a “leaner” and “more efficient” operation, with less real estate, fewer employees and greater dependence on outside groups. This post appeared first on ...
Top Republicans, led by former president Donald Trump, are refusing to commit to accept November’s election results with six months until voters head to the polls, raising concerns that the country could see a repeat of the violent aftermath of Trump’s loss four years ago. The question has become something of a litmus test, particularly among the long list of ...
Former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, is making his political debut: The 18-year-old has been named to the slate of Republican Party delegates that will represent Florida at the party’s national convention this summer. Barron Trump, who was only 10 when his father was inaugurated as president in 2017, has largely been shielded from the political limelight. His ...
The Arizona Green Party says it believes that two of the people set to appear on its primary ballot are both candidates planted by the major parties in a bid to sway the results of one of the country’s most hotly contested Senate races. The state’s Green Party, a liberal group with just about 3,000 registered voters, suspects that one ...
As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year. Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy ...
When House Democrats narrowly lost their majority in 2022, they did not expect to be the party that saved a Republican speaker from banishment. But in the topsy-turvy world of today’s House, Democrats on Wednesday evening rode to the rescue of a conservative congressman-turned-speaker and cemented their status as co-rulers of a deeply dysfunctional lower chamber in the process. This ...
Mike Johnson on Tuesday vowed to remain in his job as speaker past the 2024 election, defying a pair of hard-line conservatives who continue to seek his ouster, and attempting to retain his shaky grip on an unruly House. “I intend to lead this conference in the future,” Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday. “We have plans for the next Congress, and ...
A few days before his Manhattan trial got underway, former president Donald Trump posted an image on social media that he suggested proved his innocence. “LOOK WHAT WAS JUST FOUND!” he shouted about the photo. “WILL THE FAKE NEWS REPORT IT?” The picture showed a piece of paper with a statement from adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. Dated Jan. 30, 2018, ...
NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, testified Tuesday about a disturbing sexual encounter she says she had with him, leading to angry, profane muttering from the former president that alarmed the judge. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan called Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche to a sidebar during a ...
NEW YORK — Donald Trump sat stone-faced as Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of his criminal hush money trial, described meeting him at a 2006 golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Calif. “He was obviously a golfer,” she said. “He was probably as old or older than my father.” This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...